Procol Harum

Beyond
the Pale

Christmas Quiz 2015 – 2016

The handsome prizes!

Each year at Christmas, following the Scandinavian custom, BtP sets
twelve
days of Procol puzzles which great numbers of the band's adherents follow with much interest
and merriment ... at the end of the trail is typically a tiny answer, which you send
in by e-mail to the webmasters, to win one (or more?) of the prizes below. The
puzzles start on Christmas Day.

We've
come up with something this year (all will be revealed soon) which ... all the information is at 'Beyond the Pale', the only Procol Harum work of reference you'll need.

A very interesting item for the
Procol/Beatles fan especially, being a spiral-bound A4 140-page
compendium of photocopied press-cuttings prepared by
Burrelle's
for members of Ringo's fifth All-Starr Band (feat. Gary Brooker)
following their tour of the USA in 1999(thanks, Gary)

Unique 2016 International Procol Convention tee-shirt, red cotton
printed in white, size L, signed in black by five members of
Procol Harum. The only tee-shirt in this size/colour that was ever
made (thanks, Gary, Geoff, Geoff, Josh and
Matt)

A large (13 x 19 inches) colour
promo photo of The Well's on Fire line-up, taken in the Brooker
barn, and signed in black ink by Brooker, Brzezicki, Fisher, Pegg and
Whitehorn(thanks, Franky)

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Unique 2016 International Procol Convention tee-shirt, red cotton
printed in white, size XL, signed in black by five members of
Procol Harum. The only tee-shirt in this size/colour that was ever
made (thanks, Gary, Geoff, Geoff, Josh and
Matt)

Competitors should rank the above prizesin the order they
favour them, and send in their preference – all eight letters, please! –
with the solution to the puzzles. Your message will look something like:
"The five-word answer is [x x x x x] and myprize preferences are GAEBFCDH".

We shall allot the first three prizes on a beat-the-clock basis, where the earliest correct response earns its first choice of prize
and so on; after
that all subsequent correct entries received in the next 48 hours will be
placed in the BtP Homburg and the remaining prize-winners will be
drawn by a suitably Glamorous Assistant, all being well.

In the somewhat unlikely event of there being fewer than eight winners,
the first people to submit correct answers will get more than their fair
share of the prizes!

The quiz starts on Christmas Day and runs through to Twelfth Night. You
can join in at any time, if you have a pencil and an internet
connection.